Jan is like one of the strongest cards in the game even if he was at 5 power

@@rydelredekop I get that 100% consitanci is super strong, but like you need to have all of your non unit cards to be tactis to achive. Him being 7 for 12 is a bit too much. I think something like 8 for 12 or 6 for 10 would be fine, but nilfgard hate is too strong.

@@ondrejprudek7876 Water is fine at 9p. No one played it at 10 even in Harmony so it was buffed, that's the main reason. Harmony isn't the strongest deck so it's fine to have cards that look so strong on paper be in it (although it occasionally also sees use in Devotion Midrange). Also, Jan is insane and one of the most faction defining cards in the game, not the best comparison. Portal would be a fairer one, which also recently got buffed.

@@platinumpatrol2964 Ok now I think I get the waters, but I still think Jan at 7 for 12 feels horendous, but that could just be me, I never got in to pro rank and only manadged rank 1, so I would like to hear what pople who have more time to play think. Why is he considered so stong? What would be a good spot for him?

@@ondrejprudek7876 no, you absolutely dont need to have 12 tactics for jan to be active, thats why hes busted. so long as you have 8+ tactics in your deck you will draw him round 1 85% of the time, and with war council, will play him 90% of the time. waters of brokilon play for a flat 10 points not counting symbiosis, and is still vulnerable to control. I do agree that the card is a little midrangy, but its definitely not op at 9 provisions, because harmony still requires building your deck around to trigger

I think we have different definitions for the tiers. I'm ranking them how they're used in the decks they go in, not in a vacuum so cards that get used in playable decks can't go into meme. The bombs aren't great on their own, but in Madoc Bomb decks they are pretty good because of the extra value and you wanting to play them. For the weak cards, a buff to most of them would make them playable in my opinion which is what the tier is for.

I think that's the biggest issue with Fortune Teller. On paper she can be a worse substitute for a Pellar and Squirrel, but 4p slots aren't really that contested in most decks so saving a slot isn't that useful. Having the Pellar/Squirrel is better since you just redraw the 4ps you don't want in the matchup anyway.

I can take a quick look, what is it?

@platinumpatrol2964 well I cant post links in the comms so wait a sec ill write it down

​@@platinumpatrol2964 Patricidal Fury Mask of Uroboros Triss: Meteor Shower Otkell Magic Compass Eist Tuirseach Triss: Telekinesis Birna Bran Coral Commander's Horn Morkvarg An Craite Greatsword x2 Derran Freya's Blessing x2 Artefact Compression Tuirseach Skirmisher x2 Heymaey Skald x2 Tuirseach Invader x2 Brokvar Hunter x2 Brokvar Warrior x2 So the gameplan is to play 2 greatswords from otkell and compass smthng like boar or morkvarg and use triss. Eist into double greatsword discard is a huge tempo play that is secured with full leader but the bronze damage cards could be better i think as well as something like artiffact compression. I wated to seek your help as you seem full of knowledge. I came up with the deck myself and its really fun tbh. Give it a go and thanks for the feedback bro, means a lot as im on every new upload the same day it drops <3

​@@platinumpatrol2964 Patricidal Fury Mask of Uroboros Triss: Meteor Shower Otkell Magic Compass Eist Tuirseach Triss: Telekinesis Birna Bran Coral Commander's Horn Morkvarg An Craite Greatsword x2 Derran Freya's Blessing x2 Artefact Compression Tuirseach Skirmisher x2 Heymaey Skald x2 Tuirseach Invader x2 Brokvar Hunter x2 Brokvar Warrior x2 So the gameplan is to play 2 greatswords from otkell and compass smthng like boar or morkvarg and use triss. Eist into double greatsword discard is a huge tempo play that is secured with full leader but the bronze damage cards could be better i think as well as something like artiffact compression. I wated to seek your help as you seem full of knowledge. I came up with the deck myself and its really fun tbh. Give it a go and thanks for the feedback bro, means a lot as im on every new upload the same day it drops <3

@@platinumpatrol2964 Patricidal Fury Mask of Uroboros Triss: Meteor Shower Otkell Magic Compass Eist Tuirseach Triss: Telekinesis Birna Bran Coral Commander's Horn Morkvarg An Craite Greatsword x2 Derran Freya's Blessing x2 Artefact Compression Tuirseach Skirmisher x2 Heymaey Skald x2 Tuirseach Invader x2 Brokvar Hunter x2 Brokvar Warrior x2

The NG one with Knife Jugglers and Illusionists or just bandits in general?

@@platinumpatrol2964 I mean pure neutral faction bandits

Removing Dunca for a Hamadryad is probably best

Ferko would definitely help the Wheel, but he was hard to fit in this deck in particular. I'll keep it in mind and maybe give it another shot later. In Game 2 anything would've been better than the Strings, I forgot it still profits less even if even if there's nothing to Seize and I should've done the Jackal more and earlier. Not sure having the Junior does enough to win either way though thanks to the random Watchman shield. And yeah the Svalblod started doing more harm than good, but Self-wound players love to constantly trigger him.

​@@platinumpatrol2964You wouldn't have wasted the Junior on the shield, definitely. But if you had him as your last card at 29:11 , you could have removed the Reaver Scout, which would have been a 7 point play overall, putting you ahead by 11 points (7+ 4 point pre-existing lead). Opponent had Kaedweni Sergeant in hand which plays for 6 + the 3 point boost from the Order, totalling 9. You would have won by 2 points. (You could have also wasted the Junior on a shield anyway and still won since the Collusion would have hit the Scout for 4 damage and Junior could have then killed it at 3, but I think, not knowing what he had at that point, it would have been wiser to play Collusion first)

She doesn't work well with Frost because they don't swarm the board. She's basically relegated to Tatterwing.

@platinumpatrol2964 with auberion king, you can create a rider and summon 2 riders from your deck. That's 4 units

The game really tried to make the Wheel look good too

@platinumpatrol2964 It's actually not terrible in theory, but 6 provisions is hard to justify. I can see it becoming a staple at 5p but then it could be too strong. Are you gonna make a deck on the "ship ballista" thing? I had a similar game, passing round one and getting rolled by 40 point bronzes in round two. Still not sure what the hell happened, since he didn't play mutagenerator as I recall, but then i wasn't really paying attention.

@@zydrate5098 The lack of consistency is big problem on a removal card. The other really really annoying thing is it being a 0 on turn 1 when one of its best uses is a highroll to kill a strong setup engine or strategem boosted unit. I might do a video on the Erland deck eventually, it's been around for a while and I haven't tried it myself.

Counterpoint to the best meme card line: Vypper exist.

@@platinumpatrol2964 Allowing it to roll at the start of your round instead of at the end would be a good change, agreed.

I'll give it a shot once I do some decks for the other factions

@@platinumpatrol2964 It's actually viable, I tried it in pro rank using that 4p card which heals and boosts while using things like king of beggars, savolla (can be healed and boosted after the deploy), ALL artifacts, etc.

Yes, I'm doing a Syndicate deck next

Great, thanks 😍😍

Probably Harald, Feral Bond, and Greatsword to replace with Sihil, Gerd (for the extra Siren spawn), and a 2nd Freya's Blessing.

great video like always

@@wspyderr The amount of damage it does can be annoying to deal with

Also, consider running a seagull instead of brokers warrior. Another target to use abordage on, a little carryover, and potential to self damage to kill your own raid tutor so you can replay him in the same round with fucusya

@@er4din903 Didn't think of using Seagull to kill Vabjorn, that's an interesting point. I'm not sure the deck needs Kaer Trolde for the double removal when the Raids scale so high in damage and there's no Armor or Self-wound synergy, but it could be worth trying out. Harald I do like for bringing back the enhanced Veteran cards that War of Clans can't grab and as another Tyr payoff and the pings do help setup Bloodthirst once the Raids scale and start killing everything, but he's not really necessary I suppose.

Well, it does just lose some matchups like no unit Monsters and sometimes you don't draw any Highland Warlords or tutors. Strong 2-0 decks can be an issue as well since you don't get all of your scaling.

Yes, I think they will for a long time still. The closest comparison for Gwent is probably The Elder Scrolls Legends card game (big IP spinoff card game, similar playerbase size during its lifespan) and it's still going after they ended official support 5 years ago. Without having to pay developers as a big cost my guess is they'll keep the servers up as long as there's a playerbase for the game.

@platinumpatrol2964 thanks for the info man, more power to your channel 🤙

What do you play in their place?

I think both are good. You'd probably want a 2nd Freya's Blessing if there's no Harald to revive, but that's easy enough to fit. My reason to not pick Sove is to allow for more distributed uses of the leader charges to enable Bloodthirst, especially Abordage, and not have to worry about setting up damaged units for him. Both work though and the deck is perfectly capable of killing a beast pulled by Sove if the opponent doesn't purify it.

Guy just described all NG & SK decks.

with good deck optimisation this dekc is less draw dependant. yes, getting draig + 2 warlors your ideal turn 1 scenario, but when that happens you usuall end up losing round 1 becaus w playing that package is super low tempo. by dropping harald for kaer trolde you get one extra powerful play in a longer round 1, so you can compete better. ive used this deck to climb to pro 4 months now na dyou can 100 % play around less than deal draws. its not that binary.

Oh he most definitely is! I didn't have him to begin with but that 1 extra power to every card with veteran, + the points from all excess damage you do and he's unit points. He can easily be a 20+ point card and he helps keep everything alive so yeah if you are looking for a place to save provision I wouldn't remove him 😅 some pirates deck you can easily deploy him as a 16 point finisher + veteran value, that's better than morvudd 😊

I agree that he's 100% worth it. He's normally 10-12 extra points on the Veteran cards alone (which helps alleviate the weaker stats in R1) so by Round 3 he's worth 18-20 even without any boost. Definitely worth and like @DennisJeppesen said, in some matchups where the excess damage happens a lot he becomes a huge finisher.

@@platinumpatrol2964 couldn't have said it better, I have him in my sihil deck and the excess damages alone can make him worth it. Honestly I am surprised nobody complains about him "only being 11 provision" I am glad he is 11 but even if he was 12-13p I would still make room for him.

@@DennisJeppesen I think it's because the points are spread out across the Veteran units and Highland Warlord gets more attention since he's a Bronze and enables damage (more annoying) than Bran.

@@platinumpatrol2964 oh damn okay fair enough. i thought soon after commenting anyway that it would play for at least 15 or something like that. ive never touched raid warriors so

They can't, but it's a lot better than nothing. The card drops were really exciting, especially as a creator.

Devotion is when you have no Neutral cards in your starting deck.

@platinumpatrol2964 ahh, I have oneiromancy or whatever probably why I don't see that

@societyreborn33 It doesn't show up anywhere, you just have to make sure you meet the condition when you include the cards.

They do different things. Force of Nature is good if you want another Pointslam and engine activator. Carapace is better if you want to ensure Selfeater lives, which is important for a deck like this that wants to revive Selfeaters later with Tome, Incubus, and Necromancy. I wanted to keep them alive with it since the deck really relies on them increasing their base power for later.

Even better the Monsters ones where they don't say anything at all just "..."

They are translated [in square brackets] in some other languages!

I think Dorregaray of Vole for the lock is the best still. Gael is interesting, but I think more control is more important than a pointslam card.

@@platinumpatrol2964 well so i was right beacuse i did that too

Cards got nerfed in the Balance Council (occurs at the beginning of every month) so sometimes decks are over provision if the videos are older. This one is still correct though, so I'm not sure what you're talking about? Did you get the "Balance Council Failed to Load" error? It makes cards show up with their stats from October 2023 and you have to close the game to fix it.

@@platinumpatrol2964 I didn't get the error. I just cant use all the cards in this deck for the aboved reason.

@@jackrabbit0612 It's because there were nerfs to cards in the deck. Megascope, Blue Stripes Commando, Foltest, and Demavend all got provision nerfs. Not sure why it showed up at 164 when I imported it but it's 170 now. Probably have to cut either Demavend or give up Defender.

​@@platinumpatrol2964 you said defender is key for foltest. I cut renew

@@jackrabbit0612 It is, but the deck was a lot of provisions over. Non-Renew version is good though, just have to be careful about people bleeding out the Pavetta returned Commandos R2.